God I love the West(I don’t mean MT I mean Western Civilization, an unfortunate and necessary qualification these days). I don’t care what all the not so liberal, liberal professors in the world say or how many young people believe them. This is the rousing spirit that filled my soul as I spend Sunday afternoon with the Bozeman Symphony. I have taken in orchestras from around the world an I must say that they were excellent. The West is the best, and it’s because of Jesus.
John Adams said:

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. “

Scheherazade by Léon Bakst. In the West we write Symphonies of stories and then paint paintings of them.

And it’s so true; while we sit in awe taking in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s tribute to the Near East, Scheherazade, the Near East is over they paying tribute to death. They are calling it a civil war which is just what it’s not, it’s a tribal war. The same sort of tribal wars that have been fought all over this planet since it’s creation. Brother killing, brother, or more accurately, half-brother. This was what we, whites, we Caucasians were doing before the incursion of the Gospel. The Nordic and Germanic peoples were tribal barbarians. Wave after wave came down from the north and conquered starting with the fall of Rome. But then the Gospel conquered them all. Oh sure they still fought defensive wars when they had to, like the Crusades. But the Gospel freed them up to pursue the fine arts, as Adams said. Once their hearts were governed by the Gospel, they could form more connections, more relationships with other people, the necessary foundation of any civilization. It’s easier to do business when you can trust your neighbor, when you aren’t busy raising an army to kill him in revenge. When you worship Jesus the Christ instead of Death. And as this order progressed, we built and created instead of conquered. Science, as we know it, was born, and it began to be applied to the physical world and we cured disease and split the atom. When tyrants like George III tried to stop the progress and go back to those tyrannies Americans laid down their lives for their posterity, for us. Adams and many of his contemporaries, left us a world where we are free to listen to the incredible music produced by a symphonic orchestra. Praise be to Jesus!
The only problem is that we are letting it slip away, if not outright kicking it in the gut. We already let the order the British imposed on the Near East, fall apart. And now we are destroying the heart of the West. Europe is mostly gone, they threw out the gospel and replace it with the humanist theories of Communism and Socialism. Now they sit around and do drugs, too apathetic to work or have kids, much less further the arts. And the same trend is coming to America. We become like that which we worship. We worship Jesus the Christ, and so the West had become truly human, ruling and subduing this garden as Adam was meant to do. The founding fathers shared the vision of Revelation, from the Garden of Genesis to the glorified City of John’s vision, a City on a Hill. Don’t let the haters steal your joy in the West. Teach your children to love it. Take them to the Symphony!